WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: No Bad Wins 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.320 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:15.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This he's Talking 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:19.720 Cowboys training live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:28.720 the Star in Price Jolting Line, got pictures, and now 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:35.440 your hosts Isaiah stand Back, Patrick Walker and Kyle Yeoman's 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:04.000 Dallas Cowboys. It is a victory Monday here on Talking Cowboys, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.200 presented by a Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:12.920 Star in Frisco and the SWBC Studios. The Cowboys get 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.760 their fifth win of the twenty twenty two campaign, improved 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.560 to five and two, as they take down the Detroit 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.600 Lions twenty four to six, the final score from AT 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.920 and T Stadium. Alongside Patrick No, C Walker, Isaiah stand Back, 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.240 I'm Kyle Yeoman's with Chris Beam. As always, gentlemen, it's 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.840 another victory Monday, and it's oh so sweet when you 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.680 can get a home win in the NFL. Right absolutely, 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.800 it's fantastic. Cowboys are sitting at five and two, bounce 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.880 back nicely, especially defensively, coming off of a not a 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.600 bad game against Philadelphia, but a little bit of a 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.760 step back as far as the elite play that we've 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:50.680 been seen from them on a week to week basis. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:55.960 Absolutely ted off on golf, pun intended, and that helped 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.040 settle in Dak Prescott and the Cowboys offense in the 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.760 second half. Totally loved he of a subtle I like, 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:07.360 I'm here for absolutely love. Nance was on the call. Hell, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.959 yeah that's true. Yeah, the voice of the Masters or 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.760 I guess not. Yeah, he does do the Masters, doesn't he. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.920 He does this a lot of stuff. Yeah, you're a 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.560 big golf guy. Yeah, definitely not. Yeah. No, they got 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.120 the dub. That's all that matters. At the end of 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.160 the day, I personally didn't like how it happened, but 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.720 I know we'll get into that. UM as the show 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.079 goes on. Ultimately, all you automatters is that you walk 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.720 away with a W. Doesn't matter how ugly, how pretty, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.480 how whatever it is. Um, you're your one win closer 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.040 to you know. Actually you needed that win because because 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.639 what the rest of the division did, So that was 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.639 an important win as well. Everybody that played yesterday in 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.359 the NFC East one, the only team that didn't win 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.000 is already the only undefeated team in the NFL, and 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.120 they were on a bye week, so I mean, yeah, 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.200 you needed to win to keep pace. Uh and you did. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.359 So you were supposed to win this football game. Yeah, 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.119 we said it on Friday, everybody, he said it, you 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.520 needed to win this football game. Sure, the Lions come 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.960 in with a number three rated offense in the NFL, 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.880 a top total offense in the league, and they put 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.560 up some put up some numbers, and they've got some 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.960 pieces defensively, but paper v paper, you're supposed to win 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.720 this football game. Yeah, and ultimately you did. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.000 a credit to the to the Detroit Lions. And and 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.600 we said this, you know, each week, and we said 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.400 this going into this game. It's a scrappy bunch under 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.200 Dan Campbell. It is this scrappy bunch and Cowboys fans, 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.160 you got reminded of it in the first half, particularly 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.240 with Aidan Hutchinson. Hey, Ayton, I'm sorry, I guess you. 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.720 I guess you're tuned into talking Cowboys and hurt me 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.760 said you wouldn't get a sack because he went out 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.720 he got way to go freaking. But you know what, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.200 So what we're here for is bill bulletin board material. 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.320 But Aidan Hutchinson, he won his battles more often than 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.440 not against Tyler Smith in the past attack. But then 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.080 you saw Dan Campbell move Hutchinson over to the opposite 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.720 side and then he beat Terren Steele at least once. 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.920 But in the run game, both Tyler Smith and Terren 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.080 Steele did perform well. Struggled in the past game though 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.000 in eighteen Huncherson was able to get those two sacks. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.040 But to the Cowboys credit be an adjustments or whatever 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.160 the case may be. After the half, you didn't really 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.520 hear from Aiden Hutchinson over the course of the third 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.240 and fourth quarter. So the Cowboys came out and we 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.200 talked a lot about and we've talked a lot about 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.080 this when it comes to the Cowboys just over the 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:29.719 past few seasons, and what's typically been the case is 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.640 their consistent inability to adapt at the half and come 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.400 out consistently powerful in the third and then forced it 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.640 over to the fourth quarter. We've seen them get better 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.440 with that in the third quarter. We saw it again 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.040 against Detroit. They really came out and just basically owned 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.680 the third quarter. But then the question was can they 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.520 keep this, you know, the foot to the accelerating, the 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.640 accelerator to the floor in the fourth slowed down just 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.400 a little bit on the back end of the third quarter, 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.400 but they picked it right back up. That defense, it's 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.600 it's lights out. Five takeaway. You're talking about two interceptions 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.760 between Trevon Diggs and George and Lewis, you know, three 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.039 more forced fumble and fumble recoveries. And I love how 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.599 Diggs set the tone with his interception to start the 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.680 third quarter because they needed it. They were, you know, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.720 six three, I believe at the half, everybody's like, well, 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.320 what's going on. Defense is like, okay, we got you. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.960 So then the question was okay, Dak defense got you. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.440 They got you. This takeaway, what can you do with it? Oh? Okay, well, 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.000 lo and behold we were we remembered the Cowboys remember 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.560 that they have Ezekiel Elliott back there, and they use 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.040 Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollter to just ram the ball 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:44.160 down Jared Golf's throat pun intended and they ended up 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.120 getting the touchdown on that one. The Cowboys. Biggest takeaway 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:51.480 from me is the Cowboys offense gained three touchdowns off 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.880 of three of the five takeaways from the from the 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.080 few defense. That's how you win game. Yeah, so you 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.800 mentioned you don't like how it got there. Yeah. I 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.120 don't think you're alone in that fact. There's a lot 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.520 of Cowboys Nation that is almost Russell. Yesterday in the studio, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.400 you and I got wet, We got after it a 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.560 little bit. Oh yeah, we got after a little bit. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.440 Put the hand on backwards, like over the top. Yeah. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:19.240 And I understand your your side of things, because you're 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.359 a player and you want to look at how to improve. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.039 Just because you you don't win, or just because you 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:26.800 win the football game doesn't mean you were perfect work. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:28.960 Your work is not done at all. And if you 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.560 play like you did yesterday against the Detroit Lions in 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.920 the future, you're gonna lose games. You're gonna lose to 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.080 good teams. You didn't lose yesterday because you played the Lions, 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.080 but there were good things to take away. And that's 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.600 kind of where I'm at. And you win the football 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.520 game and you do it in a dominant way. I 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.080 thought the defense played really well, really well. Yes, six points, 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.040 five takeaways. I know a lot of that came in 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:53.960 the fourth quarter, but when do you need to play 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.279 your best football in the fourth quarter? So that's kind 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.880 of where I'm at too with the defense. But I'm 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.920 I'm interested to see your thoughts on how you didn't 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:07.160 like this win. Kind of yeah, kind of. I don't 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:08.960 want to put words in your mouth by any no, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.040 the kind. So let's look at this. What do we 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:13.920 know that Detroit was gonna come out and do after 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.800 watching the Philadelphia film be physical and run the football, 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.440 Be physical and run the football. How was that working 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.120 for them in the first half? Pretty dog on good? 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.400 Would you say decent? Pretty dark? No, it wasn't decent. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.640 It was dog on. They didn't find the end zone though, 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.000 That's my thing. Okay, so put it. So let's go 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:29.600 back to that. Okay, let's go back to that. Now. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.480 First of all, let me lay this out there. The 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.000 Dallas Cowboys got the w I'm just gonna say that 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.840 out there, Okay. I come from the player's standpoint, and 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.320 the player's standpoint is, Yes, the things that you do good, 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.120 you're supposed to do good. And I'm always looking for 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.880 the things that we can improve upon. That's always my outlook. 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.960 That's just me as a human being. That's I don't 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:47.720 pat myself on the back of life for things that 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.000 I'm supposed to do. I look for the things that 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.960 I can improve upon. That's me, that's me as a 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.920 player human all that. I'm gonna lay that out there. Okay, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.200 now let's move forward. The Detroit Lions came out there 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.680 and were more physical, especially in the first half. Yes, yes, 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.320 they got after they got after talking about the defense, 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.000 flying in, flying in their I was pointing out to 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:06.720 you in the studio how they were shooting at the 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.280 knees of absolutely dirty, play dirty. Where else can you 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:14.200 tackle Nowadays? You can't go high. You can't go high, right, 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.120 So I mean, so that's what you do. So I 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.360 relate that to the time when I was playing back 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.280 in the day in Troy Paulamalu and the Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.280 They all tackle tackle like that. They run full speed, 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.240 they shoot all their body weight and their shoulder at 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.040 your kneecap. You're gonna either move sideways and get hit 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.200 by somebody else, or you're gonna get hit by them 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.160 one or the two unless you're Ezekiel Elliott and you 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.240 hop over people. Okay, That's that's what's how you tackle. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.120 So they were more physical on defense. There were more 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.080 physical on offense. When we go back to the first half, 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.080 and everybody's like oh what the defense balled out in 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.640 the second half when Detroit had to abandon their their 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.480 their strategy and their game plan. Absolutely, that's what we 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.640 expect our defense to do. Any team that has to 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.439 drop back and pass against this defense, you're going to lose. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.520 I don't care who you are. If you have to 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.880 drop back and throw the ball and rely on your 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.280 pass to win you a ball game, it's probably not 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.640 gonna work out that well. Because the Dallas Cowboys because 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.160 their defensive front and their front seven is just absolutely nasty. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.120 It's a last that's it's the last resort in terms 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.880 of an offensive strategy. Okay, but they're tight end. I 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.040 don't know how you don't score on that heck of 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.960 a play by Michael Parsons. That's why that's why you don't. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:21.760 But I mean, but your piece of I mean just 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.000 has a play. Again, from the player's standpoint, if I'm 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:25.320 that close to the ends, on what am I doing 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.240 with the ball? You're diving? Okay, thank you very much. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.400 So amazing played by Michael Parsons. Not taking anything away 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.440 from him. He's the reason why you're in a position 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.360 to be able to create a turnover on the following play. 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.920 But from that tightens perspective, that should have been a touchdown. Sure, 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.120 I'm just gonna lay it out there. It should have 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.960 been a touchdown. And I'm not saying you're wrong. Okay, 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.040 so he didn't he he didn't know the lion was 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.760 absolutely Hey, regardless of the line or not, if I 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.800 have people in pursuit, I'm diving across it. You're not 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.800 You're not wrong. Absolutely, really quickly. Before we move on, though, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.240 I went back and watched all twenty two today. Oh 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.000 my gosh, that Michael Parsons is a couple of plays 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.439 in his career that are just draw dropping. This might 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.480 have been my favorite for ever, pure effort ever. This 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.400 is just go back and watch it. Do yourself a favor. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.199 I'm not saying go buy NFL Plus or whatever. We'll 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.880 say that on the Reds later. Go look at this. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.080 Find a way to get it. If it's on Twitter, 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.920 take it. Michael Parsons is seven yards behind this tight 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.120 end and has a guy in between, and he catches 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.600 him within twenty yards. We were talking last week about 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.679 how many strides Patrick would beat me on at forty 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:36.199 and it's like, oh, well forty, Michael would destroy anybody. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.560 That play was unbelievable up to I think Nick jen 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.640 put it at almost twenty one miles. That's crazy. He's 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:46.559 a physical specimen. But his relentless his relentlessness all right, 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.480 and his willingness to go and stay and pursue at 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.560 all given times, no matter if he's getting cut, no 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.040 matter if he's on the backside of a play, he's 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.360 going to continue to pursue. So super kudos to him. Yeah, 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.199 I mean, he's the reason why his defense is doing 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:59.920 what they're doing, right, He's one of the main reasons. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.400 So super super credit to him in terms of going 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.080 out there and making that play. But in reality that 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.280 dude should have scored a touchdown, sure, but he didn't. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.560 But he didn't. So you go on to the next play. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.240 What happened right next play? De Law did a heck 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.439 of a job getting vertical and creating some mayhem back there. 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:19.400 But that's not supposed to happen in human plays. Yeah, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.360 if you go back and watch that all twenty two 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.400 we talked about Mica, go look at what Tank did. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.720 Blew up three guys, now de lawd Law had a 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.360 heck of a game, in my opinion, that's his best 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:34.520 in my opinion, that's best. You you're cool. Yeah, he 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.000 understood that assignment. Yes, he understood assignment. Something may leave. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.680 Kudos to d law on that play. Those two plays, 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.360 in my opinion as a player, that's not supposed to happen. Right, 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.240 those are errors by the players on Detroit side. Oh 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.040 well right, they happened. Okay, Oh well they happened. That 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.120 was the turning of the game because had those had 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:55.880 the first play, the tight end play would have been 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.360 a touchdown. Detroit Lions are able to stay in their 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.920 strategy and stayed by running the ball on the ground 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.840 because they didn't go to the second half. Now you 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.360 have a terrible ball by year Golf on a play 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.200 where Treyvon did was actually beat. Yep, he was beat. 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.480 It's much like the play last year against the New 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.680 York Giants where it was he was beat and it 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.720 was a bad ball underthrown. He makes an amazing play. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.320 It wasn't an interception if they had they replayed it 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.000 because the ball he trapped it. But still amazing play. 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.920 Still amazing play. Even make it even a speculation whether 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.160 or not it was a catch or not. I don't 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.079 think he was beat as bad as you're intending. The 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.679 receiver had the sideline, Reynolds had the sideline and golf 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.559 through it thinking the sideline would be there, And then 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.360 Reynolds didn't adjust to the ball well. And Treyvon Digs 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.160 tracked that ball well. And I'm taking nothing away from 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.959 Trayvon's ability to track the ball, make a play on 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.800 the ball, and make it even you know, questionable whether 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.440 or not he caught it or not. It was a 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.360 terrible ball by Golf's I mean, let's not just again, 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.120 Let's let's be honest there. It was a terrible ball 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.120 by golf. It is what it is. Had the ball 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:58.520 been where it was supposed to be down to have 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:00.800 been a big play for them offensive. So when I'm 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.080 watching film, I look at it for the what ELPs Now. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.800 The reality is trayvonn made a heck of a player. 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.680 The reality is golf through a bad ball, and you 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.800 expect golf to make bad throws from time to time. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.320 So that is the reality. But I'm always looking at it. 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.679 Had had those plays turned out the way that they 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.360 were intended to go, based upon what took place, this 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.400 is a totally different ball game and I'm not sure 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.640 that Detroit is in a position where they then now 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.280 have to drop back and pass the ball and allow 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.319 those goons for Dallas to come do what they do, 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:28.959 because I think that they would have stuck with the 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.559 running game and been efficient like they were efficient by 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.600 averaging over four and a half yards per per rush. Well, 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.280 here's my problem. My problem is the bottom line is 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.760 if ifs were fifth Sweethearts, we don't got drunk. Okay, 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.200 So I drink water, though, and you make a point 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.360 that I'd rather the ladder, you know, it goes great 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:52.360 with the black rifle light. My thing is this, and 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.640 you made several valid points, so let me let me 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.600 kind of pull one out and kind of thread it 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.400 out from there. You mentioned that the lions were put 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.199 in a position and over the lions kind of kind 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.640 themselves and run and put themselves into position be errors 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.199 or whatever the case may be where they kind of 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.559 had to get away from what was working right. Well, 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.760 that was because the cowboys forced them to make those 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.520 mistakes and though and put themselves in that position. Like 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.160 they didn't just say, well, I'm gonna go out and 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.040 I'm gonna fumble on the right. So it goes back 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.640 to scheme versus personnel, who has the better personnel. The 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.040 Cowboys have the better personnel, and their personnel be at 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:29.120 Michael Parsons, Trevon Diggs shout off to Sam Williams. We 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:34.840 have to mention Sam Williams, just a breakout game. Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.000 And it goes back to kind of what during so 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.160 Armstrong said to me a couple of weeks or so ago. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.000 He said, everybody on the defense is to him. We 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.920 saw another him yesterday, Sam Williams, Right, this Cowboys defense 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.120 has kind of lived on Ben Don't Break, which I 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.600 think is what Kyle was going to kind of allude to. 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.520 So in allowing, not allowing, but allowing because you didn't 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.680 stop it. In allowing some of those gainers on the ground, 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.080 Cowboys were basically saying, Okay, you can have that. You 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.400 can have that, you can have that, but show me 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.040 what you're gonna do in the red zone. When it 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.800 came time to get closer to the red zone. Personnel 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:11.160 and the differentiation between elite personnel and okay versus or 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.680 bad personnel, that's where it shows up. I think you 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.560 can agree in the red zone any other part of 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.480 the person Michael parsons that play where he chased down 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.040 the tighten from back in. That's elite personnel versus okay personnel. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.360 Because if if it was elite versus elite, an elite 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.560 tight end George Kittle, Travis Kelsey, they would have doved 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.440 even if it was right, they would have dove do right, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.960 but they didn't. Yeah, So Michael Parson, there you go. Ye, well, yeah, exactly. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.240 You get down on the one yard line, you gotta 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:36.560 run the ball, and all you gotta do is punch 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:40.360 it in. Here's the problem, okay personnel versus elite personnel, 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.640 and the Marcus Lawrence goodbye to you, Goodbye to you, 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.520 good bye to you. You're okay, goodbye to you. Give 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.360 me the fune but I don't, don't so, and then 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.360 it forced Jerry Golf into exactly what we wanted Jay 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.040 Golf to be forced into. Now you have to win 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.080 the game with your own absolute and we don't believe 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.800 that you can. So I believe you're accurate in that 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:02.400 the Lions were ended up being one dimensional in the 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.600 dimension they didn't want to participate it, which was the 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.400 passing game. But that was by design for the Cowboys 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.160 and Dan Quinn and then they went out and executed 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.720 it and forced those mental mistakes that led to it 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.520 being a completely different second half. I think with Tryvon 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.000 Diggs and that was Those are excellent plays. Obviously Michael 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.800 Parson stopped in then DeMarcus Lawrence, but I have to 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.040 go back to a play like Treyvon Diggs. I have 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.360 to go back to Sam Williams in the fourth quarter. 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:34.680 Those are heartbreaking plays for the Detroit Lions and quarterback 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.640 in Jared Golf who has shown that once he starts 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.080 to get down on himself, once he makes one mistake, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.200 one thread comes out. That's another and all of a sudden, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.440 the yarn ball is all over the floor and the catski. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.960 I forgot about one play. One play is a player 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:55.360 that didn't take place that we saw from Cooper Rush 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.400 against the Washington Commanders for the most part, and then 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.280 it showed back up again. It's Philly and that was 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:05.119 arrant throws by Dak Prescott and he admitted it. He 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.000 admitted into postgame interviews. He said, I was overly confident 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.520 in some of my throws, and they pulled him back. 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.680 They pulled, they pulled the rains it was in the 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.919 first half. The interception that was should have been an 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.360 interception where he threw it into triple coverage. That would 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:18.920 have changed the landscape of the game too. So that's 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.040 what I think about those three plays in particular. Had 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.680 those plays went down the way that most players would 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.240 have taken advantage of those plays, this is a totally 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.960 different game, and I don't like the way. Had the 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.720 line that's been and able to stay with their game plan, 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.640 I ain't have zero confidence that Dallas on the defensive 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.000 side was able to stop their rushing attack because they didn't. 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.040 We didn't see it. So that's back to back weeks 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.280 we've seen now where teams were You could call it 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.000 ben but don't break all you want to, but I 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:46.760 think these guys are running the ball on the ground. 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:48.960 I think it was the ultimate ben but dumb break 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.359 because you went all the way down to the half 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.560 yard line on that drive, specifically because that drive was 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.920 the worst drive defensively of the entire game. It was. 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.520 I don't have the numbers in front of me. I'll 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.840 find it when we come back from break, but they 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.720 play it was double digit yardage. A lot of that 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.840 or double digit plays. A lot of that yardage came 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.200 from the ground. They ran the ball, They went back 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.000 to their great game plan, and they were physical, they 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:14.399 were up front, and they went all the way down, 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.560 ran a great sprint screenplay and then it was flubbed 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.000 at the end. But you also, that's the thing is 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.080 that's just two phenomenal plays from two of your best players. 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:28.840 That's the bend. But you just don't actually break it. Man, 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:30.800 all the way up to the top up I would 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.560 a little coffee stick. You went all the way up 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.639 to the edge here and you didn't actually snap. And 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.320 going back to Dak Prescott, and you know we would 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.400 dive more so here shortly into Dak Prescott's return. Sure, 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.520 but with Dek you knew that and we talked about 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.120 it before the game. If he sees a particular throw, 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.080 he's gonna pull the trigger. That's something that Cooper Rush 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:53.879 may not have done. Now, you take the good with 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:57.560 the bad. So he dodged a bullet, Yes, that dropped interception, 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:05.119 but that was a matrix dodge but not fair. That 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:11.159 was out. He went for neo against mister Mistranderson. But 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.520 not long before that, he completes that ball in triple 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.000 coverage to Ceedee Lamb for the first down, which then 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:22.040 gets the face mask from cdee Lamb, so that the 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.719 past to Lamb showed me and reminded him that hey, 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.800 I could make this throw. Yeah, it's on that particular one. 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.560 It didn't. It almost didn't work out. It turn out 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.080 in completion could have been an interception. They completely changed 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.959 the game plan after those throws. Completely changed the game 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:40.840 plan after those kind of see that I think I 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.560 think it more so that was one of the mental 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:46.119 turning points for them to say, Okay, let's kind of 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:47.520 scale back and get back to the run game. But 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.879 what what was a hint that that was going to 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:55.120 potentially happen was the it wasn't sailed, but his first 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.280